DOLE v. SHENANDOAH BAPTIST CHURCH

Nos. 89-2341, 89-2369.

899 F.2d 1389 (1990)

Elizabeth DOLE, Secretary, United States Department of Labor; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHENANDOAH BAPTIST CHURCH; Carol C. Anderson; Lola D. Clifton; Loretta B. Dillon; Dorothy M. Dixon; Alma S. Greene; Delilah F. Gross; Margaret Harvey; Mary Ann Herndon; Jeffrey P. Kessler; John T. Kessler; Shirley I. Kessler; Joyce T. Martin; Eva T. Murdock; Sherry R. Padgett; Antoinette L. Parsons; Barbara C. Shelor; Donna Shelor; Mary Beth Shelor; Ann T. Shelton; Ruth Wesselink; Donna M. Womack, Defendants-Appellants. Elizabeth DOLE, Secretary, United States Department of Labor; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHENANDOAH BAPTIST CHURCH; Carol C. Anderson; Lola D. Clifton; Loretta B. Dillon; Dorothy M. Dixon; Alma S. Greene; Delilah F. Gross; Margaret Harvey; Mary Ann Herndon; Jeffrey P. Kessler; John T. Kessler; Shirley I. Kessler; Joyce T. Martin; Eva T. Murdock; Sherry R. Padgett; Antoinette L. Parsons; Barbara C. Shelor; Donna Shelor; Mary Beth Shelor; Ann T. Shelton; Ruth Wesselink; Donna M. Womack, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1990.

As Amended April 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Lemons, Durrette, Irvin & Lemons, P.C., Richmond, Va., Donald Wise Huffman, Bird, Kinder & Huffman, Roanoke, Va. (John L. Cooley, Fox, Wooten & Hart, P.C., Roanoke, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Samuel Alan Marcosson, U.S. E.E.O.C., William J. Stone, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C. (Charles A. Shanor, General Counsel, Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate General Counsel, U.S. E.E.O.C., Jerry G. Thorn, Acting Solicitor, Monica Gallagher, Associate Solicitor, Linda Jan S. Pack, Counsel for Appellate Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SPROUSE and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

The dispute underlying this appeal arose when the federal government sought to apply certain provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the Act or the FLSA)1 to the Roanoke Valley Christian Schools (Roanoke Valley) operated by Shenandoah Baptist Church. The church and twenty-one intervening employees (Shenandoah) urge that the district court erred in awarding back pay for teachers (for equal pay violations) and...

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